Growth and Development Quotes

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

'Facts of Life' was and continues to be a milestone on my journey. But when people act like the journey ended when 'Facts of Life' ended, that's annoying. I could never and would never want to divorce myself from it because it was such a great experience from so many different facets.

We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one.

I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?